Careers Job Description
General Description
The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) works to promote the well-being of immigrant communities by recommending policies and programs that facilitate successful integration of immigrant New Yorkers into the civic, economic, and cultural life of New York City.
ActionNYC is a citywide initiative to provide immigration legal services at scale and to build capacity within legal and community-based organizations.
Position Description
The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) is hiring a Program Manager to advance the work of ActionNYC in schools and other community-based sites. The Program Manager will be part of MOIA’s Legal Initiatives team, which manages and promotes innovative access to justice programs for immigrants including ActionNYC and NYCitizenship and makes policy recommendations with respect to the City’s immigration legal services funding and programming.
Roles and Responsibilities
Major responsibilities of the Program Manager include, but are not limited to:
- Manage the daily operations of the ActionNYC program based in schools, including maintaining regular communication with program’s legal, outreach, and schools partners;
- Work with all partners to ensure that program deliverables are met, key metrics are tracked and reports are produced on program progress for funders and for internal use;
- Visit program sites to check in with program staff, troubleshoot operational issues and ensure program protocols are followed;
- Execute the strategic growth of ActionNYC’s work in schools in collaboration with relevant stakeholders;
- Work closely within MOIA’s Legal Initiatives team to ensure that the program is aligned with broader administration goals related to immigration legal services;
- Attend relevant inter-governmental, inter-agency and public events as needed; and
Other Duties
Additional duties related to ActionNYC and MOIA’s legal initiatives as circumstances warrant.
Qualifications
Must have a proven record of initiating and managing complex, interdisciplinary projects involving multiple constituents. Must have experience mediating among groups with competing perspectives, overseeing project implementation, and pioneering innovative solutions to intricate problems. Familiarity with data analysis as it relates to program outcomes and contract cycles is highly desired. Other requirements include:
- A bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution;
- At least three (3) years of professional experience in a relevant field;
- Excellent program management, organizational, and analytical skills;
- Proven record of initiating and managing complex, interdisciplinary projects involving multiple constituents;
- Experience mediating among groups with competing perspectives, overseeing project implementation, and pioneering innovative solutions to intricate problems;
- Familiarity with data analysis as it relates to program outcomes and contract cycles is highly desired;
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities;
- Highly organized and detail oriented;
- Strategic thinker with ability to be flexible and work independently in a fast-paced environment;
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills;
- Ability and experience working with diverse individuals and communities;
- Comfortable in a dynamic, fast-paced working environment;
- Availability to work flexible hours and occasional weekends;
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office (i.e., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint);
- Experience working at, or liaising with, public schools or New York City government is highly preferred; and
Understanding of immigration legal services is a plus.
Please include a letter of interest and resume.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Full Time
$60,000.00 - $65,000.00
Oct 05, 2018 (Or Until Filled)